Today saw the first Friday congregational prayers being held Turkey's mosques

It is ten years since a live broadcast from the Mediterranean on Aljazeera TV came to an abrupt end. On 31 May 2010 I was watching human rights activists...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman agreed on Wednesday to strengthen coordination to cut oil production and stabilise the global oil market. The Kremlin...

The Algerian Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned its ambassador to France for consultations against the backdrop of some French public channels’ airing of programmes that: “Attack the Algerian people...

Of the articles I have written so far this year, one of the most popular has been a piece I wrote in January for The Electronic Intifada, about an...

The Head of the Libyan Government’s Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj and the Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abela on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding in the field of...

Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul...

In the three months that countries around the world have imposed widescale lockdowns that paralysed their economies and decimated trade, we have seen the emergence of grassroots organisations which...

Fully-loaded Iranian oil tankers roam the oceans of the world and pass through strategic straits and waterways heading for two main destinations: Venezuela and China. In doing so, they...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told an ally of General Khalifa Haftar that his country supports an “immediate ceasefire” in Libya, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry. Lavrov expressed Moscow’s...

There have been frequent reports that Russia has transferred a fleet of MiG-29s and two Sukhoi 24s from Hmeimim on the Syrian coast to Al-Jafra in central Libya to...

Six people have appeared in a UK court charged with the murder of 19-year-old British-Lebanese woman Aya Ha chem. Hachem died after receiving a gunshot wound to the chest...

France’s threats and interference have complicated the case of a French-Iranian academic jailed in Iran, a spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, according to the...

A Turkish soldier was killed in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Wednesday after an explosion along the M4 highway, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said in a statement, Reuters...

Ex-Daesh fighters could face prosecution for gruesome “conflict selfies” with severed heads and dead bodies, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Daesh terrorists have been known to...

Long before Sir Winston Churchill said that history is written by the victors there were variations on the theme; the winners of any conflict get to write the definitive...

Over the past couple of weeks Saudi Arabia has upped the ante with regard to retaliation against the family members of political dissenters in the Kingdom. Former senior official...

China cut its imports of oil from Saudi Arabia last month, customs data issued by the authorities in Beijing revealed this week. During the same period, imports of Russian...

Russia has recently deployed fighter aircraft to Libya to support Russian mercenaries who are battling for warlord Khalifa Haftar, said US military leaders on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. “US Africa Command...

A member of the Scottish parliament (MSP) has sparked outrage by suggesting that the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians when Israel was founded in their land in 1948 was...

Eurojust, Europe’s judicial cooperation agency, has called for Daesh returnees from Iraq and Syria to be charged with war crimes. The call was made in a new report by...

Libyan warlord Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar is not loyal to any international agreement, a spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Ambassador İbrahim Kalin made his...

The Turkish Defence Ministry has formally refuted allegations that it has been obstructing and cutting water supplies to areas in northern Syria. This was done, says Turkey, by the...

The mother of a British-Lebanese teenager, who was fatally stabbed in the UK last year, died on Sunday in Greater Manchester. Debbie Makki, 55, died “with a broken heart”...

Turkish poet and novelist Necip Fazil Kisakurek was remembered in Turkey on Monday to mark the 37th anniversary of his death. An activist who contributed to Islamic thought, the...

The Italian protest song “Bella Ciao” replaced the call to prayer from several mosques in Turkey’s İzmir

Turkey believes that the US and Europe no longer trust Khalifa Haftar in Libya, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has disclosed in a television interview. He added that the steps...

In a Sunday phone call, the presidents of Turkey and Iran discussed cooperation in the fight against COVID-19, plus bilateral ties and regional issues, reported Aanadolu Agency, citing an...

The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is red line for Muslims worldwide, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Eid holiday message

Russian fighters in Libya were flown out of a town south of Tripoli by their Libyan allies after retreating from frontlines at the capital, Reuters reported the town’s mayor...

Israeli carrier El Al will begin operating cargo flights from Tel Aviv to Turkey for the first time in a decade, according to local media. The first El Al flight...

Turkey’s defense chief denounced the recent harassments in the Aegean Sea on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. “Despite all our attempts, understanding and patience for good neighborly relations, it is not possible...